Obama's Smog Standard Capitulation Enrages Environmentalists

President Obama shelved a plan to tighten the Environmental Protection Agency's smog standards today, citing the need to lift regulations on America's struggling industries. While Republicans and business leaders had urged the president to withdraw the air quality rules, a range of environmental groups had pleaded with the president to remain firm. Spokespersons for groups like the League of Conservation Voters and Clean Air Watch were quick to issue rebuttals. To get a sense of how much this move is likely to irritate the left, take a look at the rage on these progressive and environmental blogs:

Businesses argued that even thinking about beginning to maybe implement the initial stages of a pollution reduction strategy would kill the American economy, and evidently that worked. Gah! What is going on in this White House? Now we all have to hold our breaths, literally, until 2013.